The similarities between blacks and lesser primates, particularly those of the ape family, are so striking that they have led some to question whether blacks are human at all. This is interesting, but it raises some problems. First of all, how do you explain interbreeding? Miscegenation between blacks and whites has been going on for centuries. It is the primary reason why American Negroes are craftier, and thus more dangerous, than their African brethren. If blacks were not human, surely it would not be possible for them to produce offspring with humans. After all, chimpanzees cannot do this...
...Or can they?
There is in fact a little-known but fairly well-documented history of experiments designed to create hybrids between humans and other apes, resulting in "humanzees," "humangutans," and other abominations. It is not out of the question. Humans possess 46 chromosomes while pongids have 48, yet the same difference exists between horses and donkeys, which regularly produce mules. Research has shown that human sperm can penetrate the egg of the gibbon, a lesser ape. Soviet scientist Ilya Ivanov attempted many times to create such a hybrid using artificial insemination, yet he ultimately ran out of apes and died in 1930, before the advent of modern genetics. Similar experiments were conducted in Germany and the UK. Most fascinating was
Oliver, a performing chimp who displayed unusual intelligence, human-like facial features, and an upright gait. Speculation abounded that Oliver was in fact a humanzee with 47 chromosomes; to much disappointment, postmortem testing revealed that he was indeed pure chimp.
Still, one has to wonder what would happen if some brave soul ditched the whole artificial insemination idea and just "got primitive" with an ape, National Geographic style.
In fact, scientists claim to have
DNA evidence that humans and chimps did mate with regularity "millions of years ago." We know, of course, that the Earth is not that old, but who is to say their claims are otherwise untrue? Our genetic code is full of noise, nonsense, mutations, and apparent errors, all of which can likely be traced back to man's fall in the Garden of Eden. It is possible that the ancestral sin corrupted our genes to the point where we could (and perhaps still can) hybridize with apes.
A controversial book called
Erectus Walks Among Us posits that blacks are actually
Homo erectus, a prehistoric species of human thought to be extinct. The book is too racist to be regarded as anything more than fringe pseudoscience by the mainstream and too steeped in Darwinism to be truly useful to Creation scientists, but it is not without its merits. The author convincingly describes the primitive traits of blacks and makes a strong case that they are somehow... different. I think he may have it backwards; blacks are not Erectus
per se, but Erectus fossils are probably just the bones of black people.